In The Beginning

 

In the beginning was a girl

In the beginning she had modest hopes

She didn't want to rule the world

In the beginning,

In the beginning was a man

In the beginning he had expectations

He had a marriage plan

In the beginning,

In the beginning was the clan

In the beginning was the land

The land that was promised to that clan,

The land and the clan of Israel

In the beginning,

In the beginning were the tribes,

In the beginning, being governed and 

Ruled by priests and scribes,

And of course, the Romans,

Don't forget the Romans,

In The beginning,

In the beginning there was begging,

In the beginning, crying from the street,

Pleading with their God

To be released from beneath the feet 

Of the Romans,

In the beginning,

In the beginning there was Sinning

In the beginning from day one,

The laws were being broken, before the law had even begun,

In the beginning,


In the beginning there was turmoil, 

Turmoil being unfurled,

In the beginning, an alienation,

The estrangement of the world,

From its creator,

In the beginning,

In the beginning hope was going

Hope was going, going, gone,

In the beginning dead and buried

Be it Rome or Babylon,

It was buried.

In the beginning,

In the beginning the old promise was dead, or so it seemed,

Ur of the Chaldeans, through to Egypt,

How long to redeem this dream? 

We've been waiting

Since the beginning,

In the beginning there was darkness, a darkness beyond the night.

In night-time you have stars, but this darkness knows no light;

It knows not its creator

Nor the Father of mankind,

It feels neither his warmth nor love,

It is spiritually blind

From the beginning,

In the beginning, there was longing,

Long, long, long ago

A yearning for love and meaning,

From a source we could not know,

Unknowable, unattainable, in holiness enshrined,

Unreachable, unassailable: God, the potentate of time,

In the beginning,

In the beginning, we were just beginning

But never could become,

Unbecoming in the beginning, 

Something missing from the sum,

The sum total of our righteousness

Like filthy rags we present,

In the beginning sin was winning,

We were bankrupt, broken, spent,

In the beginning, 


In the beginning, in the land of Israel,

In the beginning was a girl,

She had modest ambitions, 

She was not trying to rule the world

It was her beginning,

For the scriptures had ordained from mouths of prophets

The virgin shall be with child,

The word that was spoken by Gabriel,

The word to the exiled,

In the beginning there had been silence

Nothing sounded, nothing heard,

When then, in the beginning,

In the beginning was the word,

The living breathing word.

In the beginning he was God, 

He was God and with God too,

And he spoke into the darkness

To let the light shine through

And to the people walking in darkness,

A great and awesome light,

The invisible God

Now bursts into sight,

The unknowable God

Now all flesh and blood,

The perfect and accessible

Human Son of God,


In the beginning,

There came a new beginning,

A never ending beginning,

The Lord Jesus Christ